Type-setting machine.



No. 801,913. PATENTED OCT. 17, 1905.

W. G. REYNOLDS.

TYPE SETTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 25, 1904.

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No. 801,913. PATENTED OCT. 17, 1905.

W. G. REYNOLDS. TYPE SETTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 25, 1904.

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WILLIAM G. REYNOLDS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

TYPE-SETTING MACHINE- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 17, 1905.

Application filed June 25, 1904:. Serial No. 214,136.

To all whom it flea/y concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM G. REYNOLDS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Type Setting Machines, of,

which the following is a specification.

This invention is a type or matrix assembling machine of that class wherein the type or matrices are fed by gravity and conveyed by appropriate releasing and conveying means to a stick or assembling-piece.

It is characterized especially by the use of strips of metal which form the sections or divisions of the type or matrix magazine instead of the channels or grooves of other machines, the forked ends of which strips, opening and closing automatically, provide a means for transferring type or matrices from different sections of the magazine to the assembling line, (which may be a strip or channel.)

The complete control over thin letters embossed on sheet metal is also a feature of this device, such letters being embossed on .the back of a C-shaped piece and hooking over the strips. These type or matrices fit over said strips of metal, down which they slide by gravity.

Means are provided to release the matrices or type singly from the several strips according to the matter to be composed and to convey the type or matrices so released to the assembling stick or channel.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of the machine, only five characters or type-strips being shown for the purpose of illustration, one of the strips being drawn down and its forks straddling the assembling-strip. Fig. 2 is a side elevation. Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are respectively front and end views of the movable key and guide-piece by the operation of which the type are released. Fig. 6 is a plan view of one of the embossed type. Fig. 7 is a section on the line 7 7 of Figs. 1 and 2. View of a matrix or solid type-body having a T-slot therein that it may slide freely on the magazine-strips and on the assembling-strip. Fig. 9 is a detail in perspective.

Referring specifically to the drawings, 6 indicates the base or back board upon which the parts are mounted. The embossed typebodies are indicated at 7, having, as said before, the shape of the letter C, with type-face cast upon the back thereof. These type fit,

respectively,over thin narrow strips of metal,

Fig.8 is a perspective (indicated at A,) which are hung from suitable supports B, fixed to the backboard 6. These supports to givethe requisite strength are preferably formed of sheet metal doubled upon itself and soldered along one edge to the strips and attached at the other end to the backboard and supported between studs 8,pr0- jecting from the backboard, the construction being shown in detail in Fig. 7, whereby, as will be seen, a type-strip A forms a T, which permits the free passage of the type.

The strips A are formed in two parts or pieces, so as to permit a sliding or telescopic movement of one part with respect to the other, the joint being indicated at 9 and formed by forking the upper part of the strip, with the top of the lower part of the strip entering between the forks. This allows the type to fall freely from one part of the strip to the other.

The lower part of each strip is fixed to a key or guide piece C, formed of sheet metal doubled upon itself, as clearly shown in Figs. 3, 4, and 5, and soldered with a lengthwise T- joint to the strip A, so as to permit the free passage of the type. in substantially the same manner as described with respect to the supports B. Each key-piece is movable vertically between studs 10, and in its movement it carries with it thelower portion of the strip A. Each key-piece has a handle M, whereby it is depressed, and it is lifted or retracted by a spring 0, to which it is connected by rod P, said spring attached to the fixture Q at the top of the base-board. Extending rearwardly from each key-piece O through a slot in the backboard is a pin N, which comes in contact with a cross-bar D, which extends across behind all the strips and slides in guide-pieces D. After being depressed the bar D is returned by a spring 11. The cross-bar has a pivotal connection with a lever E, which is connected by link J to the lever I, which, is forked at the end to engage over the pin 12, projecting backwardly through a slot in the backboard and attached to one of the strippers H, of which more hereinafter. Each keypieceO has at its lower end a downwardlyprojecting spring-dog F, properly positioned to engage a ratchet 13 on a feeding-roller G. There is a pair of these rollers for each strip or character, and each rotates loosely upon a fixed shaft l t. The front roller of the pair is indicated at G and the rear roller at G. The former bears the ratchet 13 and the latter is idle. The rollers cooperate to prevent the drop of the type except when actuated by the downward movement of the key-piece C. The distance between the roller is such that the ends of the type contact therewith,

' the frictional contact being such that the body of type on the strip is supported. hen the rollers are actuated, each movement thereof carries the lowest type beyond the point of frictional engagement and lets it drop, and it slides down to the lower end of the strip in position to be stripped off onto the assembling-strip L. The lower ends of the strips are forked, as at 15, and when they are depressed the forks pass over the upper end of the assembling-strip L. The holders K, bearing against the lower end of the outside strips, gather and hold the strips so that the lower forked ends come together approximately over the top of the strip L, whereby the forked ends of the strips are guided to said strip. The strippers comprise front and rear bars H, located, respectively, in front of and behind the strips A and below the feeding-rollers Gr. Said bars are connected by pins 16 and are pressed toward each other by the springs 17 around the pins. The rear stripper is mounted to slide on guide-rods 18, having tubes at the end which fit over said rods. Near the upper end said guide-rods are offset rearwardly, as shown at 19.

At 20 wedge-shaped pieces are indicated, fixed to the backboard and upon which the front stripper rides. When the strippers are advanced or forced down by the lever I, as above described, the front stripper H passes off the wedge and onto the front edge of the strips A and the rear stripper rides up the incline 19 to contact with the rear edge of said strips. When the strippers are retracted or lifted, they are spread by the action of the wedge and guide-rods and open out of contact with the strips A.

In operation the type or matrix bodies, as shown in Figs. 6 and 8, having been assembled upon the metal strips A, fall by gravity to the rollers (Jr G. By means of the handle M a key-piece G is depressed and a strip A is forced into contact with the assembling-strip L. The same movement also operates the ratchet and dog, which are so positioned as related to each other that when the rollers turn one space the following tooth pushes the spring-dog off the tooth it is engaged in, and the rollers release one type, which falls by gravity to the forks 15. The downward movement of the key-piece through the connections I), E, and J also swings the lever I, which in turn depresses the strippers H. As the strippers H move downward they come together against the front and rear edges of the strip A by the means above described and force the type off of the stripsA and forks 15 onto the assembling-strip L. Upon releasing the key-piece C its spring 0 returns it, and with it the strippers and levers, to their original positions. It will thus be seen that as each key piece is depressed a type is set upon the assembling-strip L, which can be extended to any convenient place where the composition is to be used or into a channel and drop the type or matrices therein.

The invention provides a simple means for setting type rapidly.

The invention is not limited to the exact construction shown nor otherwise than as indicated in the following claims.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a type or matrix assembling machine, the combination of a magazine having a series of movable strips on which the type or matrix of each character are respectively slidable, an assembling-strip to which any of said strips may be moved, and means to release type or matrix severally from said strips and convey the same onto the assembling-strip.

2. In a type or matrix assembling machine, the combination with a series of movable magazine-strips, and an assembling-strip to which any of said strips may be moved, having type or matrix bodies which embrace and are slidable on said strips, of means to release said bodies severally from the magazine-strips and convey the same onto the assembling-strip.

3. In a type or matrix assembling machine, a series of vertical magazine-strips. on which type-bodies are slidable downwardly thereon, key-pieces at the lower ends of said strips, releasing devices actuated by the key-pieces and engaged with the type-bodies to release the same singly, an assembling-piece to which said strips lead, and strippers constructed to strip such released type from the strips onto the assembling-piece.

1- In a type or matrix assembling machine, the combination with magazine strips on which grooved type or matrices are slidable, of an assembling-strip to which all the magazine-strips extend, and manuallyoperated mechanism to carry type or matrix bodies, severally, from the magazine-strips onto the assembling-strip.

5. In a type or matrix assembling machine, the combination of vertically-movable magazine-strips on which the type or matrix bodies are carried, key-pieces attached to the strips and movable therewith, releasing devices adjacent to the strips and constructed to normally support the type or matrix bodies thereon, an assembling strip to which the magazine-strips connect when they are depressed,'means actuated by the depression of the key-pieces to release said devices and permit a type or matrix to pass below the same and to strip such type or matrix from the magazine -strips onto the assemblingstrip.

6. In a type or matrix assembling machine, the combination of a series of magazine-strips arranged vertically, and on which type or matrix bodies are slidable by gravity, an assembling-piece to which the strips lead, feedrollers between which the lowest type or matrix on each strip is held, key-pieces engageable with the rollers to turn the same and release a type or matrix, and. a stripper actuated by the movement of a key-piece and constructed to carry such released type or matrix onto the assembling-piece.

7. In a type or matrix assembling machine, the combination with an assembling-strip and a series of magazine-strips which converge to such assembling-strip, and on which type or matrix bodies are slidable, key operated means to release the type or matrices on the magazine-strips, and a key-operated stripperbar extending across such released type or matrices from the magazine-strips to the assembling-strip.

8. In a machine of the kind described, the combination of a series of magazine-strips having spring forked ends, an assemblingstrip to which all of said strips lead and are movable, the end of the assembling-strip being constructed to fit between the forks, on which strips type or matrix bodies are slidable, and means to force said bodies from the magazine-strips to the assemblingstrips.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM G. REYNOLDS.

Witnesses:

ELSA PROSCHE, H. G. BATCHELOR. 

